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<blockquote data-quote="Katemare" data-source="post: 4725187" data-attributes="member: 80996">I would replace &quot;balance&quot; with &quot;meeting the expectations&quot;.You know, I had one game ruined because of gross mistake in rules text: the rules stated that each combatant can make an action in each phase after their init order (they really should've had one action each turn at their init phase). Of course, the PCs piled on the boss Lich who had low init and hacked him before he could act. It was on local con while presenting a new system, too :\ well, it's good that the con was more like just a bigger group.Anyway, Lich's easy fall was nothing like any of us expected. In other words, failure to meet our expectations. The other group has nothing against a wizard being weak at first, overpowering at high levels. They expect it from a fantasy setting after reading books like &quot;The Witcher&quot;.When things don't concern combat-oriented play, you may even fail to define and measure &quot;balance&quot;. Is Xenobiology &quot;more powerful&quot; than Zero-G Maneuvering? Yes, if you have to cure the plague in alien slums. No, if you have to fight mad cyborgs in abandoned ship. Equal, if you have to fight plague-mad alien ecosystem in abandoned ship.I prefer systems that allow me to fine tune the rules and stuff so that I can meet player's (and my) expectations.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Katemare, post: 4725187, member: 80996"] I would replace "balance" with "meeting the expectations". You know, I had one game ruined because of gross mistake in rules text: the rules stated that each combatant can make an action in each phase after their init order (they really should've had one action each turn at their init phase). Of course, the PCs piled on the boss Lich who had low init and hacked him before he could act. It was on local con while presenting a new system, too :\ well, it's good that the con was more like just a bigger group. Anyway, Lich's easy fall was nothing like any of us expected. In other words, failure to meet our expectations. The other group has nothing against a wizard being weak at first, overpowering at high levels. They expect it from a fantasy setting after reading books like "The Witcher". When things don't concern combat-oriented play, you may even fail to define and measure "balance". Is Xenobiology "more powerful" than Zero-G Maneuvering? Yes, if you have to cure the plague in alien slums. No, if you have to fight mad cyborgs in abandoned ship. Equal, if you have to fight plague-mad alien ecosystem in abandoned ship. I prefer systems that allow me to fine tune the rules and stuff so that I can meet player's (and my) expectations. [/QUOTE]

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